Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 18:26:35 -0400
From: Ron <wolfwalker2@alltel.net>
Subject: TEEP chapter 11

Once Mike saw that they were back in the family room of their new house, he
let go of the struggling new guys, "Sorry guys, but we had to move
quickly.you're safe now."

Drew and Eric, once they had been let go, ran to the far corner of the
room, putting as much space between themselves and Mike as possible,
watching all of them carefully, as Mike sat down on the couch facing them,
while Bill stood over near them looking like he wanted to go to them or
something but hesitating to do that, they started to calm down, as Eric's
mind registered they were no longer in the mall food court.

Shaking his head, Drew looked around slowly, wondering if the food had been
drugged; it finally registered as he looked around the room, that somehow
they were no longer in the food court, pushing Eric behind him, into the
corner, he tried to shield him with his body as much as possible, while
watching the leader of the group sit down in a chair he brought in the room
from the other side of the arched doorway.

Aaron sighed before rubbing his head, "Normally we would give you the
option of coming with us to safety, and I am sorry for freaking you out
like I did, but the security guard was a gang member, he was part of those
waiting outside to get you, they had planned to kill you as soon as they
got you away from the mall, and when I stepped in and stopped the guard
from escorting you out of the mall to his waiting gang mates, he decided to
make a run for it and have his gang come in and do a drive by shooting.on
all of us, I was a little rushed."

Drew relaxed a little, as his hand touched the wall and he felt it was
real, everyone but that kid Bill, had sat down as far from them as possible
and they were looking at them, worried, taking a deep breath he let it out
slowly before reaching back to touch Eric, and feeling him behind him
shaking, he glanced back before turning and pulling him into a hug, so far,
he thought, no one had done anything else to them and seemed to be content
to stay away from them while they talked.

Sighing, he decided he might as well make the two catatonic Aaron thought,
"Would you guys like to sit down?" seeing them stiffen, he held up a hand,
"No one is going to get close to you guys, so let me do this the easy way,"
raising his hand for effect, Aaron pointed it toward the empty loveseat and
using Kinetics, he made it rise up and slowly move towards the two teens
setting it down next to wall nearest them. Smiling the whole time, as he
watched their eyes get bigger and bigger when the shock hit them.

"Tomorrow People." Eric muttered before grabbing onto Drew for comfort, "We
were taken by Tomorrow People."

Bill looked back at Aaron and in a confused voice, "I thought you're called
Alteran's?'

Laughing, Aaron pointed to an empty chair, "Stop hovering, Bill, I think
they're calming down, and to answer your questions, yes WE are called
Alteran's. The Tomorrow People was a children's show about teens with
powers like ours, except they could not harm anyone even to protect
themselves. A fantasy show, really."

Eric had calmed down quite a bit and was leaning against Drew, watching
everyone all wide eyed in awe and he looked back over to Aaron when Drew
asked, "I notice you said they could not hurt anyone, not we cannot hurt
anyone."

Aaron nodded slowly, it would not do to frighten them away just yet by
choosing the wrong words, "Correct, Alteran's don't have that problem, we
will protect our own. That security guard that I scared away was running to
get his gang to back him up, he planned to kill all of us and then in the
chaos steal my passport so no one would know I have diplomatic immunity,
his thoughts gave him away, he was going to be the last one in when the
shooting started, he was planning on firing his gun over the gangs heads,
so no one would be shot, thus chasing them away. He had a heart attack
before he was able to call for his gang."

Eric looked out the window and saw the ocean in the distance with all the
boats docked in their slips "Are we really in Florida?"

Nodding his head with a smile Aaron pointed behind him, "Would you like to
go outside and feel the sand run through your fingers as proof. Remember
you are not prisoners, you are free to go if you want, but I am offering
you a chance to join us, how about talking it over with Bill and Toby while
you look around outside, all I ask is that if you do not want to go to our
home, a place where you will always be safe, that you come and tell me
before taking off, and if you change your mind later on, you know how to
contact us, all you have to do is come back to this house and ask for
help."

"You won't force us to stay here?" Drew asked, still scared and very
untrusting since they just up and grabbed them before, even if it had saved
their lives.

"Tell you what, how about I take Mike and Dan out front to unload the van
and you can even check to make sure we are out front and moving stuff
upstairs before you go out the back door. Will that work for you?" Aaron
smiled gently as he motioned for Mike and Dan to walk out first as he stood
and watched Drew nod his head slowly before he left the room.

Emptying the van took no time as Toby and Bill really did not have much
stuff, so after piling it all in the hall upstairs, Aaron went to the back
window and looked out to see if he could see the four teens,, "looks like
they are out on the beach sitting and talking.that's encouraging at least.
As rescue's go, that one sucked," he chuckled.

"Dan, how about you go downstairs and yell out that you both will be back
in a bit and have Mike drive you over.wait there was only a van in the
drive how did you both get here?" Aaron walked back to the front to look
out the window at the street.

"I walked over from the dorms," Mike offered with a shrug, it's not that
far, really.

"Kendal dropped me off," Dan said very quietly, and was surprised when Mike
hugged him, offering silent comfort without saying anything.

Sighing as he glanced at the time on the terminal display, "I have one stop
to make before we can take off and you both need to go pack you stuff, how
about asking to borrow the van or at least borrow Toby so he can drive you
over. If the boys come back and want to leave, tell them I will return in
an hour no longer than that I would think; hopefully by then, we can take
off."  Aaron saw them nod their heads in agreement and ported out to the
warehouse club he had some shopping to do for large bulk items.

A whirlwind tour and the flatbed dollies later, Aaron pushed the first
dolly around the side of the building and once out of sight, ported it in
front of the dining hall down from Chris's apartment, going back inside for
the other one, he ported this one to the same spot and sent a quick message
to Chris, asking him to unload them, telling him that there were meats on
the second cart. Smiling at the affirmative, Aaron went back and retrieved
the third flatbed and ported this one to the kitchen dock cooler on Altair
minor, at least this one was refrigerated, and sent a quick message to
Gordon whom he startled when he made mental contact with him and asked him
to contact John and tell him there were supplies in the refrigerated dock
needing to be unloaded. Chuckling when Gordon told him he had not even
thought about trying any of his gifts out yet, Aaron ended with, "I expect
the both of you to practice then, once I drop you off at your parent's
house tonight."

Finished shopping and promising himself to return the flatbed carts as soon
as he got back to the island, or at least before the night was over, Aaron
ported back to the Miami safe house and let his mind wander around the
house searching for anyone around, not finding anyone nearby, Aaron walked
into the kitchen and saw a large note taped to the back door.

ALL OF US WENT OUT TO HELP DAN AND MIKE GET THEIR STUFF BE BACK SOON.

                                                TOBY

Smiling, Aaron left the kitchen, entered the library, logged onto the
terminal and brought up his email client. Sighing at the amount in the
inbox, he went about reading and answering them in order of Importance. He
was working his way through the third message trying to decide what to do
about the offer, when he heard footsteps running down the hall, looking
towards the door he saw Bill run past "IN HERE, BILL."

The sounds of running stopped as Aaron carefully worded his reply, telling
the government contractor that there was no way in hell he would modify his
motherboards and chips to be accepted in rapid response delivery
systems. He worded it a little nicer than that, but it all boiled down that
he would not allow his technology to be used in missiles that were not
under his complete control.

Glancing at the doorway once, he sent the message; he saw Bill standing
there, "Is there a problem or do you just need my help to carry stuff in?"
Aaron smiled at the young man nervously shifting from foot to foot.

Bill shook his head no before he smiled when he saw Aaron wave him in, "I
didn't want to interrupt, in case you were doing something private."
Curious, he glanced over to the monitor and saw an email client open, "Oh
just email.dang, you have a lot of them; don't you ever read them?" he
giggled.

Sighing, Aaron scrolled through them looking for any others marked urgent
and finding only one he opened it, "I do, all this came in since breakfast.
I have one more that has to be dealt with, then I am free, what do you
need?"

Trying very hard not to read what was on the screen, Bill looked towards
the window, "Drew and Eric want to come with."

"They are more than welcome to move to Altare Island, that was never an
issue," Aaron told him, as he frowned at the screen tilting his head
sideways, trying to make sense of the email.

"NO they want to join us, they want to be altered," Bill tried again to get
his point across and looked at Aaron, frowning at the screen, wondering if
he did something wrong by asking out of turn.

Catching the thoughts in Bills head, Aaron turned around, "Hey, I'm
frowning at the email, they are making demands they have no right to make,
not you.  Give me a moment to tell them to shove it up their ass, making
sure it has sharp corners first, then by the time I'm done, you can be back
with Drew and Eric, they should be the ones to ask me, okay?"

Nodding his head, even though Aaron could not see him, Bill finally broke
the silence, "What are you going to write back? And I'll get Drew and Eric
for you."

"They are threatening to sue me in U.S. Federal Court, unless I hand over
the blueprints of the chip making process for my Isolinear chips, I am
telling them to go ahead and sue me, as the factory that makes them is not
in the U.S. and I can just simply not sell to the U.S. or its people,
leaving them to be second string behind everyone else, not a problem for
me, really." Aaron told him as he forwarded a copy to his law firm, so they
knew what had happened and could prepare for it.

Finished, he glanced up and turned in his seat, only to see Drew and Eric
standing there nervously instead of Bill, smiling, he pointed to the couch
over by the window, "Hi guys, have a seat, Bill said you wanted to talk to
me."

Shifting on the couch nervously, Eric looked to Drew who looked anywhere
but at Aaron.

Sighing, Aaron rolled the chair closer to the couple, "Look guys, I'm not a
bad person here, I'm not going to bite your heads off or yell or scream at
you or any of that kind of thing. I WILL listen to what you have to say,
and if it is not something I can do, I WILL at least tell you why and what
needs to happen so I CAN do it."

Eric looked at his boyfriend, who looked back after getting an elbow in the
side and whispered, "Ask him."

Staring at the two and reading their wants and needs bouncing around their
surface thoughts, Aaron tried another way, "Just nod your head yes or no,
are you guys scared of me?"

Watching Eric nod no and Drew start to nod no and change it to yes, Aaron
sighed, sat back in the chair and thought about it, eyes closed, as the two
stared back at him "Bill told me you both want to join us, at first I
thought he meant on Altare, which any gay person we rescue is welcome to
live and start fresh, but then he told me you want to BE Alteran's not just
move to our nation." Opening his eyes, Aaron saw the hope and excitement in
their eyes, "two things, the first would only set the actual procedure back
until it has been met, you must be old enough to produce sperm when you
cum."

Oh how Aaron wanted to laugh at the super heated blush that crossed the two
faces, if he could harness it, he could heat all of downtown New York in
February. Controlling himself, barely, "Just nod your heads if you can
shoot sperm when you orgasm, I'm not trying to embarrass you, it's just
that the procedure can only be done on gays that are well into puberty, if
you can't, we will have to have you checked out, to find out why."

Hiding his grin with rubbing his face with his hand, Aaron thought they
could not get any redder he was wrong, as they both slowly nodded their
heads, he wondered if he would finally prove it was possible to die of
embarrassment, these two must have no blood left, as it was all in their
faces.

"The second requirement is that you have to VOCALLY ask me to undergo the
procedure, there is no turning back, once it is started, your DNA is being
changed so I need to know this is what you want, what you truly want."

Seeing Eric open his mouth, Aaron held up a hand to stop him, "Not a yes or
no a complete sentence, please."

Nodding his head, Eric started to open his mouth again when Drew sat up
straight and looked into Aarons eyes, "I want to undergo the procedure to
become Alteran, it's not just the powers we would get, it is the part that
would erase my dad and brothers hold on me, if they could hate their own
son enough to hand him over to that gang to be used and killed, I don't
want to be part of them anymore."

Nodding his head, Aaron simply told him, "We can do that, I can even make
some minor changes that will slightly alter your looks, if that is what you
want, by switching a couple of gene groups around to take more after your
mother's side of the family."

Eric smiled at Drew before he too asked, "I want to be Alteran, since once
I am, I will be safe and no one can hurt me again as I could get away on my
own by teleporting away."

"Both very valid reasons for having the procedure done, so, let's find
everyone else; it's time to leave. We'll get started once we get to
Altare," Aaron stood up and smiled at them when they leapt to their feet in
their enthusiasm to follow him.

Hearing voices from the living room, Aaron headed up front and smiled at
the four lounging around the room getting to know one another, "Hey guys,
is everything at least brought inside? If so, it is time to lock up and
leave."

Nodding their heads, Mike and Dan smiled, while Bill, being closest to the
front door ran to lock it while Toby went to check the back door.

Standing in the center of the room, and seeing that Drew was still skittish
of Mike, Aaron raised both arms in the air, straight out from the sides of
his body. After everyone had grabbed hold, Aaron sensed that he was
reaching limit of his available power without draining himself further than
he had already recovered from the other day, he still had not recovered
completely, so instead of porting them to the viewing deck he ported them
to outside the main med bay.

Covering how tired he was, Aaron waved his hand around, "Welcome to the
capital city of Altare, if I had one of those nasty 'you are here' maps, it
would tell you that you are in the park next to the main med bay, which is
our destination this afternoon." He told them in his best tour guide voice,
before walking through the doorless entry. Glancing over his shoulder,
"Come on, you can gawk all you want to, after the procedure, right now, I
want to show you where and how this is going to happen, before we
start.just to make sure you don't want to wait a day or two before making
up your mind."

Leading them into the med bay and past numerous dark doorways, Aaron
finally entered the Trauma pod and was not surprised to see Kenny in his
favorite spot talking to his brother, "Hi Kenny, did anything neat happen
this morning?"

Kenny had turned in his seat when he heard voices in the hall; once he
spotted Aaron, he jumped down and ran over throwing himself into Aaron's
arms giggling, "Chris showed me how to log on a terminal and I did my tests
this morning.I did real good. And we helped Chris put all that food away,
boy there sure was a lot on those carts," letting go, after Aaron twirled
him around once and placed him back down on the floor, Kenny looked at
Aaron seriously, "But you did not get any snacks or any candy, and Chris
said since those nasty people attacked Tim yesterday, we can't go shopping
until the end of the week when we can have the guards around. And I think
Tommy wants to go up top side so he can play with the horses.I think I want
to go ride the horses too, so when are we going and who are all these new
guys.mmmpph." Aaron placed a hand over Kenny's mouth, laughing.

"Hey you think I'm superman or something, so many questions you have to
give a person time to answer some of them," Aaron laughed as Kenny nodded
his head yes, when he reached superman. "Let me point the new guys out to
you, Mike, Dan, Bill, Toby then Drew and Eric" Aaron pointed to each of
them as he named them, and they each smiled and waved to Kenny "Why don't
you run back and get Tommy and anyone else that wants to go up to the farm
and meet me here in say an hour, that will give me time to get these guys
settled in and then I will take all of you top side while Gordon gets Carl
out of the bio-tube."

Nodding his head and grinning, Kenny yelled, "OK.BACK SOON!" as he raced
out the door yelling "BYE," to the new guys.

Chuckling at Kenny as he ran out of the room, he smiled at the looks on the
group's faces and Bill giggling, "Is everyone around here a nudist?"

"Pretty much," Aaron chuckled at the blushes and waved at them to follow
him into the next room, "When you live in a city on an island in the middle
of the pacific and no females are allowed anywhere near the island, clothes
seem silly, pretty much anymore the only time I dress in something is when
I leave the island, or I am in the med bay working around a patient that is
going to be woken up." He stopped at Carl's bio-tube and pointed to the
floating young man inside. "Come take a look, because this is what you will
be doing for the next two days if we start the process."

Peaking in the tube, Dan hesitated before letting his eyes wander down to
the guys crotch and staring at the cock and balls floating there, "What's
he floating in and what are all those tubes for?"

"The fluid he is floating in is called Regen Fluid and the tubes allow him
to breath and for food and medicine to be placed into his bloodstream while
the computer controls the resequencing of his DNA, he's actually ready to
come out of the bio-tube, but I'm going to wait until his lover gets here
to do that." Aaron told them before walking to the central desk and
activating the prep sequence for six of the bio-tubes and pulling out his
scanner and popping the Isolinear chip and placing it in the terminal for
download.

"What about the guys in those two tubes in the other room?" Toby asked, as
he looked around as the lights brightened further and lights appeared above
six of the tubes around them.

"That is our Trauma unit, David and the other guy were rescued from a
reeducation camp for gays, if the person did not change, they were killed,
a regular hospital would not have been able to save them, we had to re-grow
a large number of organs in both of them. Each room is called a pod and
holds twelve bio-tubes, except for the four Trauma pods they only hold
eight."  Aaron had moved from behind the central desk to the first of the
activating bio-tubes.

"Drew, Eric, we'll do you last if you don't mind, so who's first?" Aaron
asked before telling them "Pick a bio-tube and strip down, there is a cart
next to the bio-tube and you can place your clothes on it and then
carefully get into the bio-tube and wait for me to come hook you up,
nothing I am going to do will hurt, I promise."

Bill, being the closest to the bio-tube Aaron was standing next to, walked
up boldly and started to strip out of his clothes with a grin on his face,
tossing his clothes on top of the cart without folding them or losing his
grin and then thrust his hips at Aaron a couple of times suggestively.

As Bill climbed into the bio-tube, Aaron smacked his ass, "Scamp.the young
exhibitionist just reminded me of something I usually forget to tell
people, while undergoing the process any scars and old injuries you have
will be healed, meaning that you each will get your foreskin back on your
favorite toy," Aaron laughed. Before prepping Bill and instead of inserting
the fecal tube sent the teen to sleep first, he would do that to each of
them before intubating them. Repeating the process with each one, ending
with Mike, Aaron reversed the order and inserted the tube in both ends,
before activating the cycle and moving on to the next teen.

Finally, after all four of the boys were in the bio-tubes being altered,
Aaron moved back to where Drew and Eric were standing, "Are you guys sure
you want to go through with this now, if so, Drew, we need to run a scan
and show you some possible changes before we start, that way you can pick
out exactly how you want to look."

Seeing both boys nod their heads and actually look eager, Aaron pointed
over to the two empty bio-tubes and smiled as the blushing duo walked over
stripping out of their clothes. Drew actually covered himself with his free
hand as he tried to get into the bio-tube, before giving up and letting go
so he could climb in.

Waiting until the two were in the bio-tubes, Aaron walked over to the
console by Drew's feet and tapped a few commands into it, changing the wall
monitor to show his current body in all its glory, in full life size color
to his mortification. "Okay, according to your DNA, there are several
possibilities for a new look, I will give you choices and then the picture
of your body on the monitor will change to reflect how you will look, so we
can try several different things before locking in the changes. Let's start
with how tall you are going to be, currently you are going to be five foot
nine inches, with all your ancestors contributing, you can be taller by two
inches, if you want."

Finding his voice Drew smiled at the thought of not being below average
height, his father topped out at five foot ten, so he would be taller,
"Yes, please."

Changing the strands, the picture on the wall changed to be taller, "Okay,
next let's deal with hair, currently you are light brown, but you can go
any shade of brown, black or even blond."

Drew looked over at Eric who was watching closely and liking the dark black
hair Eric had, he chose that, "real dark black."  Then, looking at the
picture, he changed his mind, "Can you lighten it up some?  That's too
dark." Watching the monitor closely, Drew liked what he was seeing, "Stop
right there, I like that one."

Nodding his head Aaron made the changes "Eye color you don't have as much
choice here, but I can make them a brighter blue, just tell me when."

Hearing the indrawn breath from Eric, Drew stopped him, "Go back one, that
one."

"Okay, now let's change your body features a little so you don't resemble
your dad so much, I'm going to go back on your mom's side towards her dad;
stop me when you like it, I don't think it will take much to change your
looks, so let's try changing this." Aaron tapped away before splitting the
screen so there were two profiles side by side, changing two clusters he
looked up and nodded his head, "how's that? It's close, but yet no one
would give you a second look if they were comparing you to your brother or
father."

Drew looked over at Eric for support and seeing the smile on Eric's face,
he nodded his head "That's good and with the last change, I look like a new
person now?"

"Well not to embarrass you or anything, but you are kind of maxed out in
size on your penis, so four and three quarts is it, unless I change it, you
can go up to six inches which will put you average, once again Aaron
changed the monitor, now back to normal he showed the new size of Drew's
toy, if that was what he wanted, and saw that he had a whole body blush
going on and was silently nodding his head rapidly. Smirking, Aaron
returned the monitor to normal and pulled the cart over to start prepping
Drew.

After turning on the soma unit, Aaron placed both tubes and started the
cycle, after all, Eric had watched the first four being prepped, so there
was no sense hiding this just because it was his boyfriend. Making sure the
process was started and locked in, Aaron moved to Eric and pulled the cart
forward, noticing he had stacked his clothes on the edge very neatly.
Smiling, Aaron was about to start prepping him when he spoke up.

"Can you do that for me, too, not too many changes, but a couple of little
ones maybe," Eric asked in his shy voice.

Nodding his head and smiling, "I can do that, would you like to see what
you will look like at eighteen and work form that?" hearing the shy, "yes
please," from Eric, Aaron quickly tapped the commands and changed the
screen so the same full color life size image was on the monitor. "So what
are you looking to change?"

"How big does my dick get?" Eric said softly, squinting at the picture in
concentration, he figured on starting with the important things before
losing the body hair.

Smirking as that was his private bet of the first thing he thought Eric
would ask about, "six and one quarter inch." Aaron zoomed in on the changed
picture so he could put the new toy through its paces for Eric.

Nodding his head, mouth dry, as he tried to ignore the hardening between
his legs, "Good that's okay then can we lose all that hair, there's too
much?"

Tapping a few changes into the computer, the hair disappeared around most
of the pictured body and listened as Eric asked, "Can you make the nose
less big, not much, but I always thought it was a little bit too fat."

Adjusting the facial features just a tiny bit, Aaron liked what he saw,
"how's that, is it more like you want?  I can slim it down just a tad more
but it might stick out more that way?"

Eric stared at the face for a while before slowly nodding his head "I think
I like it, the last thing I wanted to do was make my eyes more green than
the blah gray they are now."

Looking through the possibilities from the DNA available, Aaron chose a
green hazel as the closest he could come, "that is as green as your genes
will allow, what do you think about that face now?" Aaron zoomed in on the
new face and set it to rotate between profiles so Eric could see it from
all sides.

Laying down in the tube Eric had a smile on his face, "Perfect." he
muttered.

Grinning, Aaron locked in the changes and started to prep the smiling teen,
he seemed very happy as Aaron turned on the soma unit and sent him to
sleep, finishing up just like the five before, Aaron activated the
alteration procedure and as he was leaving the pod, he felt Tim touch his
mind.

"Is it okay for us to come in, now, I slowed the group down as much as
possible but Kenny is like a hyper rabbit bouncing back and forth, as he
runs ahead of us, he seriously needs to burn off some energy," Tim's
laughter came with the mental contact.

"Come on in, I just finished, I'll meet you guys down at the end of the
other hall if we don't meet up sooner, there is an energy point there so I
can grab some extra energy, I'm whipped," Aaron sent back as he made his
way out into the hallway and crossed by the entrance and seeing the rest
come running towards him he waited for them to catch up before walking down
the hall, a new area that was dedicated to alterations alone.

"Hey guys, we'll port from over here as I need to check on something first,
with all the new guys coming at the end of the week to be altered, I need
to set a few things in motion then we'll port up to the farm." Aaron
crossed to a larger central desk and tapped some commands after activating
the console.  Tim was the only one to suspect that the area Aaron touched
was special, as he was told he was going to grab power from the gestalt, so
as everyone gathered around and hung onto Aaron, Tim in his favorite spot
arms around Aaron's neck lips connecting to Aaron's, they ported to just
outside the vet barn at the farm.

Finishing the kiss with a deep tongue wrestle, Aaron let go of Tim to find
everyone else had already gone into the barn. Tommy, who had already
checked out the stalls by going into an empty one and looking down the row,
walked over slowly, "All the horses checked out as okay, are they in the
pasture now?"

Feeling less tired after grabbing all that energy from the reactor, Aaron
smiled as he pulled Tommy close, "They sure did and tomorrow the small herd
of cattle that I have bought will finish quarantine and be delivered, this
time there will be no early deliveries and they will be unloaded directly
into the Barn lot, so they can be scanned before release, the day after,
there will be a shipment of four hundred or so chickens and a couple
hundred of heritage Turkeys, those will be a little harder, as the tractor
type housing will have to be brought up close to the barn, and then after
the poultry passes inspection, they will have to be sorted into the proper
tractors and the tractors moved to the proper fields. Are you telling me
you are volunteering to help out?"

Tommy nodded his head, "Oh hell yeah; I want to help out, I miss working
with the animals and the garden the most." He sounded wistful as he thought
of what he loved to do and what working the land meant to him.

"Well, if you want to get up early, I am up every morning around five and I
come up here to do chores, and pick vegetables and load the feeders, you
can help out if you like, I could use it, especially once the livestock
start to arrive." Aaron hugged him tight while Tommy smiled at them.

"I have to go pick up Gordon so we can release Carl, but I also need to
pick some vegetables and stuff from the gardens along with harvesting a
couple of fish from the aquaculture tanks, why don't we port over to the
aquaculture facility and afterwards we can walk over to the gardens and you
can direct the harvests, green beans and tomatoes need to be picked and
there might be a few peppers ready also. I can get two things done at once
that way, if you can oversee the picking of the vegetables for me."

Tommy hugged Aaron back tight as he grinned and whistled real loud to get
the other guys' attention, "I can do that, HEY EVERYONE, WE ARE GOING TO
SEE THE FISH FARM AND THEN HELP PICK BEANS AND SUCH, FOR SUPPER," he
shouted getting everyone's attention. Looking towards Tim, he expected him
to take the position that one of the three usually did, arms around Aaron's
neck and was surprised when Tim grabbed Aaron from the side and whispered
to him "go ahead you can ride in front for this one." Grinning like he won
the state fair, Tommy boldly grabbed onto Aaron's neck grinning as the rest
came over and grabbed on.

Laughing, Aaron ported them to the edge of the Aquaculture facility, and
once again he was abandoned in favor of the teens running around sticking
their heads over the edge of the tanks to see what was inside, Laughing as
Kenny was about to fall into one of the tanks full of fingerlings, "Kenny
you might want to get away from the edge if you fall in those fish might
mistake your toy for a worm and bite it off." Aaron laughed, as most of the
boys that were hanging on the edge of the tanks jumped back and turned and
glared at him for laughing at them.

Sending a quick thought towards Gordon, "Gordon, are you by chance wearing
your communicator, If not, put it on so I can contact John through you if
he is around?" Aaron smiled as the teens dipped their fingers into the
tanks, with the Barramundi behind him, their fingers were safe for the
moment.

Feeling the surprise from Gordon, Aaron shook his head; he was going to
have to put those two through an intense training schedule to get them used
to their new talents. Nevertheless, he did get back a tentative answer from
Gordon, "yes I am, and John is here practicing setting up the bio-tube on
simulator mode. And your right, Carl and I have a lot of practicing to do,
I have been going through the implanted instructions, but I guess I could
have at least been practicing my pathing."

Reaching up and extending the mic, Aaron tapped the communicator, "Gordon,
can you find John and relay a question for me?"

Hearing John's voice over the ear bud, Aaron smiled as he went over to the
open sided building and activated the chillers, "Please ask John if he
would rather have Tilapia or Barramundi for supper, I'm at the farm right
now and have my net ready to dip into the tanks."

Tommy had followed Aaron watching closely as he activated some of the
equipment, moving over to where he heard the sounds of running water he saw
slush in the long metal trough that went between the two tanks on the edge
of the building. Sticking his hand in the slush he shivered and pulled it
back quickly.it was very cold. Hearing Aaron finish his conversation and
not really paying attention, he was surprised when a large net appeared in
front of his face, looking up he noticed the grin on Aaron's face.

"Okay, Tommy we are going to harvest some fish for supper, take the tank on
the other side of the sluice and fish out six or seven nice size Tilapia
and dump them into the slush that will kill them quickly and humanly. I'll
fish out the Barramundi, since they have teeth and the big ones can take a
chunk out, if you're not careful."

About that time the feeders started spitting out pellets in the other
tanks, causing screams of delight from the teens around the tanks as the
fish swarmed to the surface of the tanks to chow down. Tim, seeing Aaron
with a net, walked over to see what he was doing at the tank Tommy and
Aaron were at, not only were they in that building, but there were no
feeders spitting out pellets in the tanks they were standing in front of.

Slipping his net into the water slowly, Aaron waited for the fish to race
around and as one came past, he twisted the net so several swam into the
opening and into the long net, twisting the handle again so the net closed,
he pulled the full net to the surface so he could dump his catch in the
trough. Smiling at Tommy's concentration, and not seeing any success,
"Tommy, if you put the net into the tank slowly then give the fish a chance
to settle down, it will be a lot easier."

Thinking about the crew he was going to cook supper for tonight, and
staring at the six fish floating in the slush, Aaron netted out two more
just in case. Smiling at Tommy's excited yell "YES", Aaron looked back down
into the tank, he would have to come process this tank tonight or start
feeding them in the morning. The demands on his time were starting to get
out of hand, putting the net back into the holder, Aaron went over to the
workstation and pulled one of the filet knives out of the holder and
reached over and grabbed one of the fish and quickly and efficiently
separated the flesh from the rest before sliding the remains down a chute
to be processed for fish meal.

Tommy finally catching all the fish he had been asked to get, walked over
to watch Aaron work, "is something wrong, you were frowning pretty hard
over there?" he was really impressed on how fast Aaron could filet a
fish. "I take it we are having fish for supper tonight so I should look for
things that will go with fish?"

Nodding his head, Aaron smiled over at Tommy on the other side of the slush
filled trough, "I think fried fish, but the beans and tomatoes still need
to be picked."

Nodding his head slowly, not sure if he was overstepping his welcome with
the first question, was thankful when Tim brought it back up, "And the
frown, I was watching and you seemed to tire as you frowned."

What the hell, Aaron thought, maybe fresh viewpoints would help, "All of
this was very easy to handle when it was just me and Chris, even adding you
guys into the mix was not a problem, the work still could be done in a few
hours in the morning and I could spend the rest of the time doing what I
wanted and with you guys."

"But it's starting to get to be too much, isn't it?" Tim sounded guilty
which brought Aaron's head up.

"Tim, look at me please.don't feel guilty for being with me, along with
Pete and Kevin, I would not give that up for anything. I just need to ask
for help, that's all," rinsing his hands and putting down the knife, Aaron
motioned Tim close and pulled him into a tight hug and kissed him deeply
and longingly, smiling at the obvious results of the loving touch poking
him in the hip Aaron laughed, "most young gay guys that grew up on farms or
on the land, run fast and hard away from the homophobia of the rural
country to the big city and never look back, what I need to do is find some
of those gay guys before they lose the love of the land and kidnap them so
they can live here and help out," he ended with a laugh.

Tommy froze then smiled before breaking the moment, "Umm.is there any way
for me to send a couple of emails and even instant messenger or something
like that?"

Confused at the abrupt change of the subject, Aaron looked over at Tommy as
he started to clean the last few fish, "I take it you have not really
logged into the terminal or explored all of the functions available yet."
Realizing he had not answered the original question, Aaron washed his hands
and started the cleaning cycle before turning so he could see Tommy's face,
"both of those options are available; just click the envelope in the corner
of the screen to bring up the email program, and as far as an instant
messenger, well you could always use one of the java online ones as you
will not be able to load the common ones onto the terminal, they won't work
with our software."

Placing the knife on the tray with the fish, Aaron ported them into the
dining halls walk in cooler and pulled the other tray closer to him he
would port over with the fish to Altair and place them in the cooler before
collecting Gordon. His musings were interrupted by Tommy once more, asking
something that had him thinking of the work overload in the coming week,
"There's three or four guys that I regularly chatted with that were like
me, living on a farm and willing to stay in the closet so that we could
stay on the farm, could you pick them up tomorrow and bring them here if
they agree to come, at least that way it is one less thing for you to worry
about, and you could do the alterations one at a time so that we could work
the farm properly."

Stopping what he was doing so he could stare at Tommy, Aaron finally asked,
"How many people are we talking about?" thinking maybe one or two at the
most.

"Well, I used to talk daily with three guys, one of which was in my FFA
club, though he's sixteen and I think drives two towns over to meet with
his boyfriend, or maybe just a buddy he enjoys having sex with, Mark's his
name I think he would jump at the chance to move, he lives with an uncle
that treats him poorly, the others I think would want to come too, but
Brian might not want to, as his dad knows about him and is real good to
him, maybe he would come anyway, his dad might push him into it so he would
be safe from the bullies, heck, his dad might want to move the family here
if Brian could be safe, he only works for a cattle ranch so he could quit."
Tommy speculated out loud on what his friend's reactions would be.

Aaron blinked before smiling even one more person to help out working the
farm would be a big help with the work load, "Ok Tommy, anyone you think
would want to move here I can find time to go pick up before the cattle
arrive tomorrow at three, they can even help out which will be great and
make things move a lot faster with less stress on my end trying to keep an
eye on farm virgins so they don't get hurt," Aaron pointed towards Kenny
and the others who were once more laughing and leaning over the tanks,
splashing at the fish.

Pointing out the barn between the fruit orchard and the gardens, "There's a
terminal in the produce barn you can use, also buckets and bins for picking
vegetables, I'll be back in a couple of hours to bring all of you back home
so you can clean up before supper." Aaron pulled Tommy into a hug to thank
him, leaning over his shoulder and whispering "thank you for helping" in
his ear. Standing back up and catching the feeling of pride running through
Tommy's surface thoughts Aaron smiled at Tim "I'm just a thought away if
you need anything,"

Porting out after Tim smiled and nodded his head he missed both of them
running after the others, racing them to the barn, if he had seen it, he
would have been impressed with how well Tommy kept up with the others.

Placing the fish in the cooler, Aaron sniffed his hands before going to the
sink and washing them one more time to remove any lingering odor before
drying them and walking out of the kitchen and towards the trauma pod.
Standing in the doorway, he watched as Theo put John and Gordon through the
paces of handling an emergency patient, somehow one of them found the
simulation feature and uploaded it into one of the consoles. Moving quietly
over to the desk he hid his head so no one could see him and glanced
through the preset scenario's to see what they were set at, smirking at how
they were all medical emergencies only. Grinning evilly, he reset the
parameters to include surgical intervention and peaked around the corner to
watch as the scenario changed over and the smirk was wiped off Theo's face,
when Gordon stared stupidly at the monitor as it flashed in warning about a
massive liver and spleen rupture. Holding in his laughter, Aaron reached
over and tapped a few more commands and Theo was still spluttering as the
patient started to crash, everything from bowl ruptures to pneumothorax to
heart failure along with a massive brain bleed flashing all over the
monitor display.

Catching movement from behind Theo over by the central desk, Gordon was the
first to put things together, "Aaron what the hell are you doing, you
almost gave me a heart attack."

Not bothering to hold it in any longer, Aaron started howling in laughter,
tears running down his face as Theo whirled around, still dumbfounded with
what had just happened. Taking several deep calming breaths, trying to
control his laughter Aaron lost it again when Theo's expression darkened
before looking sheepish at being caught out. Ending the simulation program,
Aaron pulled himself to his feet cradling his side as the laughter finally
died down, seems everyone finally had a good laugh at Theo's expense.

Breathing returned to normal; Aaron glanced at the now relaxed group,
"John, the fish is on ice in the cooler, I included a Barramundi filet so
you could try it out, personally, I am going to cut ours into strips and
batter them for fish and chips tonight, in a couple of hours, expect some
fresh produce as it's being picked now by an overly enthusiastic group of
volunteers, so who knows what you will end up with."

Grinning, Aaron pointed to the monitor of the younger Stevens boy, "Where
are the Stevens boy's parents? The younger one as you no doubt saw, is
ready to be released and I might as well show you how it is done before you
leave tonight, Gordon, we are going to do things a little differently over
here than we do back at the main med bay with our real young patients, here
we will not wake the patient until they are upstairs, back in a regular
bed, surrounded by parents if possible, that way they don't freak out by
being in the bio-tube when they wake up."

"Frank and Mary were out walking in the garden after lunch, I'll go fetch
them" John volunteered, as he was walking out of the pod.

Nodding, Aaron stood up and slipped into teaching mode, "Two of the trauma
pods are set up so there are lifts going up to the family floor above,"
walking over to the closed door behind one of the stretcher carts, he
pulled it away so he could point it out before bringing the stretcher over
to the side of the bio-pod, "Now, the stretcher has a monitor and soma unit
built in and to link the stretcher to the bio-tube, you need to pull this
cord out of the monitor screen and plug it into the console, like this."

After demonstrating the proper way to hook the two together, the system
beeped, "That means the sensor identifiers have been read and are now
slaved to the stretchers onboard system, a system I might add that can't
monitor much compared to the main system, but for our purposes, it works
just fine.  To start the release sequence, all you need to do..." Aaron
then pointed out the white cap and flipping it up, revealed a key which he
twisted to the right and pushed in "and as you see, the regen fluid starts
to drain away and there will be a warm air drying cycle which will get
almost all the fluid off, or at least not leave the patient wet and
slippery."

Frank and Mary Stevens rushed into the trauma pod followed by John just as
the lid unsealed with a hiss and slid back. Deflating and removing the tube
from the youngster's lungs, Aaron motioned to Gordon to take the top while
he grabbed the feet. Aaron and Gordon then together lifted the toddler out
of the bio-tube and placed him on the stretcher "Ah Frank just in time,
your youngest will be waking up in a moment once we get him upstairs and
into a bed, that way he does not become disoriented when he wakes up, the
older boy will be released tomorrow morning, after breakfast I think."

Mary Stevens traced the outline of a faint almost healed scar along her
son's chest and was amazed that there were not more scars, but what
impressed her the most was that her baby was alive and well in one piece
and she could touch him again.

As Aaron pushed the stretcher to the elevator, Gordon and Theo took the
stairs followed by John and Frank, the only one that stayed with the
youngster was Aaron and the boy's mother. A quick ride and a short trip
across the hall to the room, Aaron and Gordon lifted the toddler from the
stretcher and removing the chest sensor, Aaron pointed out the last step to
waking the boy, "All that is left is to shut off the soma unit before
removing the last sensor." Tapping the control he pointed out, Aaron
removed the last sensor and pulled the sheet up covering the young boy,
"He'll probably wake up hungry, as soon as we leave, feel free to wake him
up."

After returning downstairs and washing the stretcher down, Aaron showed
them how to initiate the cleansing cycle so the bio-tube would be ready for
next time.  John left, intending to get dinner started, while Theo planned
to take a tour of the available housing on the island and pick one to live
in, so taking the offered P.A.D.D. from Aaron, he left, leaving Gordon and
Aaron the last in the room. "Time to go, your boyfriend needs to be
released and he is going to be hornier than all get out, while you're
helping him relieve the need to cum, I need to go topside and bring
everyone back to the city."

Once around the corner, the two ducked into an empty pod and Aaron
explained just as he did to his guys, "For this port, I will take my time
and I want you to concentrate on feeling what I do," Aaron told him, as he
linked their minds and ported directly to the Silent trauma pod in the main
med bay.

Gordon stopped once he entered the med bay, last time he was here, there
was only Carl in the bio-tube, the rest were empty, now there were six more
filled and cycling, "Been shopping again, I see," Gordon was flippant as he
glanced at each occupied bio-tube before stopping near where Aaron was
going through the release sequence.

Laughing, Aaron nodded his head, "The four older ones or should I say
three, are the new recruits that will run the Miami State safe house, the
two younger ones off to the side were a couple of strays, Bill, the
youngest of the Miami group found at lunch," the hiss of the bio-tube being
unsealed stopped his explanation. Picking up the limiter bracelet, Aaron
snapped it on Carl's left wrist before he started to remove the tubes at
both ends and then the monitor and IV cuff.

Grinning, Aaron glanced over to Gordon who was watching from the other side
of the bio-tube "We have a major problem here, Gordon."

Shocked out of his trance, Gordon looked at the monitor screen, quickly
searching for the problem.only to find the screen black, looking back at
his grinning boss for an explanation, he blushed as he was told. "You are
still clothed, chuck those things fast, once I turn the soma unit off, he
is going to be hornier than all get out, and if you wake him with a
kiss.well what are you waiting for.STRIP." Aaron giggled.

"There's a bottle of lube on the cart over here, so I will leave you to
wake your lover," Aaron turned the soma unit off and reached over and
removed the sensor before handing the lube to Gordon who was working on a
pretty good full body blush before chuckling, as he left the two, though
out of the corner of his eye, he did catch the rapidly rising pointer
Gordon was sporting.

Chuckling turning into a nice size smile, Aaron made his way back down to
the transfer room, he was going to have to be careful from now on using his
own energy for porting, he needed to build up his physical reserves and he
could not do that if he kept using energy at the rate he had been. So from
now on, he vowed to try to always use the gestalt whenever possible unless
he was off the Island, which reminded him as he reached the transfer room.
Typing a quick message to install one of the small generator's in Miami
house as soon as possible, Aaron keyed the release of the hidden power
plates and started to pull energy for the port, the generator did not have
a chance to warm up as he grabbed what he needed and ported himself to the
produce building topside.

Walking out of the building, Aaron was surprised to see as many trays of
picked beans and tomatoes ready to be returned to the city, there were
several trays of mixed vegetables, but no sign of anyone around. Walking
around the filled trays, Aaron headed for the edge of the gardens and still
not seeing anyone sent his mind looking and found them down in the orchard;
changing direction, he mind sent, "Tim what are you guys doing, and where
are you?"

Tim sent back Love, along with an answer, "Chris brought Kevin and Pete up
and we are searching the mango grove since Chris mentioned you make this
kick ass mango salsa, for fish.Ah Tommy has found some ripe ones."

"OK, I'll get the limes needed then, meet me back at the produce barn in
fifteen minutes, so we can port back to the city," Aaron sent as he headed
off to the citrus section of the tropical groves. Grabbing a dozen or so
ripe Limes, Aaron detoured through the banana section and picked a small
bunch of ripe Pitogo banana's and started back to the barn, arriving at the
same time everyone else did. Placing his harvest in with the tray of mixed
vegetables, Aaron divided the tray, the ones to go to the dining hall and
ones to go to Altair Minor for John to cook for supper.

Being surrounded by naked teens, Aaron took them in turn and either hugged
them when they approached, or kissed them fully on top of hugging them.
"Okay guys, let's get this stuff inside, so I can get it ported to where it
needs to go.nice job guys," Aaron praised them as they each grabbed a tray
and showed it to him, proud of their hard work, even Kenny had a large
bucket of Mango's he was holding tight to his chest as he walked by and let
Aaron peak at them.

Going to the only chair in the barn that was bolted to the floor, Aaron sat
down and tapped in the code that would uncover the generator panels,
placing his hands firmly against the bright silver metal on the ends of the
chair arms, he smiled at the teens as he started to port the produce out of
the barn. Produce now where it was supposed to be, and even triggering the
bell to the dock cooler so John would know he had a delivery, Aaron grinned
at Chris who started to back away.

"Oh no you don't, I can get back on my own, thank you very much," Chris
yelled, as he ported himself to safety, not about to find himself appearing
right above his hot tub again.

"Tommy, Damien, Derrick and Fred, do you want me to port you to your
balcony so you can get cleaned up before dinner?" Aaron asked, as he
started to draw power once more preparing to port those named to their
apartment. Porting each one as they nodded their head he grinned at Kenny,
"So dirt boy, maybe I should port you into your shower hmmm," he laughed at
Kenny's expression before porting him to his balcony so he could wash up.

"Alone at last." Aaron leered at his three, before doing the dramatic sigh,
"Oh Well it will just have to wait as I need to cook supper." Giggling,
Aaron ported all of them to the street outside Chris and Kenny's apartment,
"If any of you need to shower and clean up, I am sure Kenny would let you
use his shower, I'll see you at the dining hall in twenty minutes or so,"
he waved at Tim who walked towards Kenny's to clean up. Throwing an arm
around Pete and Kevin's shoulder, he started to walk towards the corner
dining hall, "So how was your day of testing?"

A/N

Just a quick one, if you previously asked me to place you on the email list
so you get the chapters early and with any embedded pictures of the tech
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bounces the last two posts